Table 5. Cost, rate, profit, and case-mix averages, by type of payment system: 1985.

	Case-mix			Facility-specific		Class-rate
	Maryland	Ohio	West Virginia
Cost, rate, profit, and case-mix averages1				Colorado	Florida	Texas	Utah
Cost per patient day
Patient care cost	$20.41	$21.59	$20.70	$17.89	$22.00	$15.64	$15.66
Total cost	47.22	45.01	48.84	39.08	47.82	37.37	41.58
Medicaid rate per day	46.88	41.63	46.85	38.09	54.02	33.02	38.27
Profit (revenue-expense ratio)	1.08	1.07	1.03	1.06	1.04	0.95	0.86
Case-mix index (average-rate ratio)	1.00	1.01	1.09	0.94	1.06	0.97	0.93

¹All cost, rate, and profit variables were adjusted for geographic wage-rate differences.

NOTE: Data are based on Medicaid cost reports and State Medicaid rate data.

SOURCE: (Schlenker, R.E., Stiles, J.D., Carlough, T., and DeVore, P.A., 1988.)